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SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948-49

STATE FOREST SERVICE

(а) Allowance payable to Assistant Director during absence of Director on duty overseas. (б) £8,400 provided on main estimates. Additional amount required on account of claims to dato being heavier than anticipated. (c) Personal effects destroyed when a forest lookout hut was demolished in a storm. (d) £5,000 provided on main estimates. Additional provision required for expenses of three officers attending Canberra School of Forestry. (e) £5,000 provided on main estimates. Requirements underestimated. (/) £2,000 provided on main estimates. Additional amount required mainly for renovations and alterations to Tapanui Hostel. (g) Provision for payment of interest on deposits lodged as security in connection with såles of timber. (h) Increases necessary as timber-production is likely to be greater than estimated. Amounts provided on main estimates, £185,000 and £125,500 respectively.

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— Salaries. | Other Chargés, j Total. VOTE—FOREST ADMINISTRATION ' £ 190 1 £ 37,510 l £ • 37,700 For Services chargeable on the Consolidated Fund —continued £ £ £ ORDINARY REYENUE ACCOUNT— VOTE—FOREST ADMINISTRATION Salaries — Professional Division Allowance (Assistant Director) (a) 190 190 | Other Chargés for and incidental to — Compensation to employees and dependants (additional) Ex gratia payment towards cost of replacement of personal effects lost by employee whilst on duty Expenses of officers travelling overseas on duty and for study (additional) Field, office, and experimental equipment : tools, furniture, instruments, &c., pureliase of (additional) Maintenance of administrative buildings (works expenditure), (additional) Payment of interest on deposits Waipa State SawmilF — Operating and selling expenses (additional) • Transfer value of logs, &c. (additional) (b) 1,250 (c) 60 (d) 450 (e) 1,000 (/) 1,500 (g) 100 (h) 10,000 {h) 26,000 . 40,360